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Hetzner announces price hike for cloud servers and bandwidth cut of up to 95% (gigazine.net)
submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Apparently US bandwidth was reduced to 1TB for their base plan, though they have 20TB for the same plan in Europe. I don't use much bandwidth right now, but I could need more in the future depending on how I do backups and whatnot.

So I'm shopping around in case I need to make a switch. Here's what I use it for:

  • VPN to get around CGNAT - so all traffic for my internal services goes through it
  • HAProxy - forwards traffic to my various services
  • small test servers - very low requirements, basically just STUN servers
  • low traffic blog

Hard requirements:

  • custom ISO, or at least openSUSE support
  • inexpensive - shooting for ~$5/month, I don't need much
  • decent bandwidth (bare minimum 50mbps, ideally 1gbps+), with high-ish caps - I won't use much data most of the time (handful of GB), but occasionally might use 2-5TB

Nice to have:

  • unmetered/generous bandwidth - would like to run a Tor relay
  • inexpensive storage - need to put my offsite backups somewhere
  • API - I'm a nerd and like automating things :)
  • location near me - I'm in the US, so anywhere in NA works

Not needed:

  • fast processors
  • lots of RAM
  • loose policies around torrenting and processing (no crypto or piracy here)
  • support features, recipes, etc - I can figure stuff out on my own

I'll probably stick with Hetzner for now because:

  • pricing is still fair (transfer is in line with competitors)
  • can probably move my server to Germany w/o major issues for more bandwidth
  • they hit all of the other requirements, nice to haves, and many unneeded features

Anyway, thoughts? The bandwidth change pisses me off, so let me know if there's a better alternative.

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 hour ago

ovh has everything (i think) mentioned, they also have inexpensive baremetal servers. They also have shitty ui. 😄

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

That article is almost 4 months old and yeah, the internet in EU is better than in the US. But you can get US plans with plenty of bandwidth. I've been happy with buyvm.net and there are many others. Hang out on lowendspirit.com for a while to get a sense of things.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's old, but it took effect this month for existing customers, hence why I noticed.

Thanks for the suggestion. Any issues with the transfer speeds?

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I'm satisfied. Virmach has had ups and downs but their network is fast too.

If you want something Hetzner-like in North America, you might look at OVH. They have a data center in Beauharnois (BHS), Canada, which is near Quebec. It's not too different from using a server in the Northeast US.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 6 hours ago

For bandwidth intensive stuff I like wholesale internet’s stuff.

The hardware is very uh, old, but the network quality is great since they run an ix. And it’s unmetered too so it’s probably sufficient.